In this short video I will show my starting skills going into Photo-shop. I started off by choosing an A3 format located under the print tab. Next is very important as I made sure I titled my new document, as you can see I named it "Mountain Image". Moving on I chose the colour mode, now you don't want to chose RGB, (RGB stands for RED, GREEN and BLUE). You don't want to choose this because when you're ready to print your document the only colours it will print in is RED, GREEN and BLUE, now we don't want that do we? So the correct colour mode is CYMK, this stands for CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW and KEY (Black). Once you have chosen these options you are awarded with a blank white screen. After this you can choose to include images like I did, now to do this you can't copy and paste you have to do it a certain way. This way includes you going to File, then place linked, this then opens up your computer files and you choose the necessary photo. For me this was a picture of a mountain. I moved to the bottom of the page because in a moment I will be duplicating this layer. To duplicate the layer you have to drag the layer to the little plus icon located on the bottom right of the screen. This then duplicates the layer therefore allowing you to drag a duplicated image from the original image as I have shown in the video. Continuing on, I moved onto making some slight adjustments to the photos in the video. To do this you need to go to image then adjustments. I chose to edit the HUE/Saturation levels of the image located at the bottom of the screen. As you can see when I moved the little icon left to right the colour of the water changed. This was on the master setting, as you can see I moved onto changing the individual colours, for example you can change the reds, yellows, greens, cyan, blues and magentas in this setting. Once each level is changed you can notice a real difference in the image you are editing. After changing the different levels, I moved onto changing the layers name, this is very important as when it comes to using the software properly you will have roughly 50 layers open and can you imagine how much of a nightmare it would be if you did not name each layer. To change the name of the layer you have to double click the text on the layer that you are choosing to change. I named it by the effect that I just used on that layer. Now we move onto the other layer, this time instead of changing the HUE/Saturation levels we are going to change the levels of the image. To get to this you have to select the layer you want to edit then go to image and adjustments, then you will see a levels tab which you can click on to provide you with the levels tab which changes the brightness, what colour you want to make stand out the most and overall change the image to your liking. Yet again we will change the layer to be called "Levels". To save a document you have to go to file, save as, either save on your computer or save onto cloud documents. Then choose the location of the file being saved to your liking. Make sure the document format is Photo-shop, as without saving it as this format you would not be able to edit it again. As well as saving it as a Photo-shop file a good idea would be to save it as a jpeg file. To save it like this it is the same process but you have to click on the format section and change it to a jpeg file. This means the work just completed will be able to be viewed in an image format. That completes the short video on the basics of Photo-shop.

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In the next short video I will display my extended Photo-shop starting skills. I started off by finding an appropriate image for the work that I am about to be showing you. Once you have searched for your chosen type of image a key step is to go onto tools and select image size to large. This then makes it easier when it comes to editing the photo in Photo-shop. After selecting image size to large you will want to find an image that you can use in Photo-shop. Once you have found your image, save the image in your files, once the image is in your download file press control x on it, once completed go over to the intended file for the photo and press control v. This process frees up space in your computer and makes it easier to find the images downloaded on the internet. Once the image has downloaded, open up Photo-shop and go through the steps I spoke about earlier to create your blank document. Once the document has opened up, import your image, do this in the way previously mentioned, then once your image is in, you can go to the image setting at the top like I have and click on adjustments. I have already spoke about the HUE/Saturation and Levels options, but the three I haven't spoke about is brightness/contrast, once this tab is opened it gives you the option to change the brightness of the image as well as the contrast of it too. As you can see when I moved the levels from left to right the image changed slightly. Next I visited the colour balance tab, this allows you to change the cyan, magenta and yellow levels in the image to be either more red, green or blue. Finally I opened the photo filter tab, this allows you to select a colour in the image and it gives you the option to make the chosen colours density level. In this situation it made the woman in the video more tanned the higher I went with the density level. Most importantly you always have to remember to change the layers name, as you don't want to get the layers mixed up when you have more of them open. In the final portion I showed how to save the work but as I have mentioned it above it would be silly of me to mention it again.

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After completing the first two introduction videos, I moved onto using the stamp tool. The video starts off with me choosing the layout size and getting everything ready. Once created I loaded the same photo of the woman in the previous video and I also loaded in a photo of a dog. Like I keep mentioning the most important step is to rename your layers, you should never forget it. To be able to use the stamp tool you need to rasterize the layer that you are going to be using to get the features from. For this situation I rasterized the dog layer due to it being the layer I am going to use to get the features from to add to the woman. Once rasterized select the stamp tool, this is located under the paintbrush tool. Once selected, a circular dot will appear, next you will have to hold down the alt key, by doing so a cross hair will appear and this is the area you want to paint onto the other area. So I'm going to hold down alt and click on the dog's eye, once clicked I let go of alt and I headed up to the woman's eye. After I chose the spot I wanted to put the dog's eye on the woman's face, I held down left-click and started to paint the dog's eyes onto the woman's eyes. Once I was happy with where I placed the dog's eye, I moved onto stamping the dog's right eye to be used as the woman's new right eye. I did this by using the same process as I just discussed. I went on to adding the dog's nose, ear, tongue and body to the woman's face, this was completed by using the same process as I just spoke about . However I wasn't too pleased with it so I used the eraser tool to get rid of the areas I did not like. These areas included the dog's body. It is important to remember to select the right layer when erasing. If I selected the women's layer I would be erasing the woman not the dog's body. So always make sure you are on the right layer. After that was all completed, I moved onto saving my work as a Photo-shop file and jpeg. 

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Moving onto the final video, this video shows you how to create a png, with the magic wand tool and the clipping tool. I started off by creating an A3 document. Remember to name it and select CYMK. The image that was first loaded in was a png already, I wanted to show you the difference between the two formats. The second image that I loaded in had a grey background. So I am going to show you how to get rid of the background using the two tools mentioned above. Firstly, I had to rasterize the layer which I was going to use the tools on. To get access to the magic wand tool you have to click and hold the icon that looks like a curser is clicking a square. Once clicked and held a new bar will open up giving you three different options. As you can see the magic wand tool was an option so I selected that one. To use the magic wand tool you have to click on the coloured area you want to get rid off. Once selected the area will have a black and white border around it. This shows the area that you are about to get rid off. Once happy with the area you press the delete button and the background disappears. To get rid of the black and white border you have to select the lasso tool, this is located above the magic wand tool. Before you're able to use the lasso tool on the new parrot image make sure the layer is rasterized as if it isn't you wouldn't be able to use the lasso tool. Once the lasso tool is selected all you have to do is click any area in the document and that should get rid of the black and white border. Moving onto the lasso tool, to use this you hold down left click on the mouse and draw around the area that  you want to delete. So for me, I would draw around the parrot and then draw around the grey area. Make sure that you line the lines back up again as it then tells Photo-shop what area you want deleted. As you will be able to see another black and white border will appear this shows the area you are going to delete. Once satisfied press the delete button and the background should be deleted. These are the two tools you need to get rid of a background. At the end of the clip you will see that I save it as a Photo-shop file and a jpeg.

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